evolution
(military) A maneuver of troops or ships.
Mean while, he never failed to be present, when any regiment, or corps of men, were drawn out to be exercised and reviewed, and accompanied them in all their evolutions […] .
(chiefly dance, sports) A turning movement, especially of the body.
Our necromancer […] taking up his wand, waved it around his head in a very mysterious motion, with a view of intimidating these forward visitants, who, far from being awed by this sort of evolution, became more and more obstreperous […] .
(obsolete) A turned or twisted shape; an involution, a complex or intricate shape.
(now rare) The act or process of unfolding or opening out; the progression of events in regular succession.
(geometry) The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it.
(mathematics, now chiefly historical) The extraction of a root from a given power.
(chemistry) The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission.
Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc.
A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms.
(biology) The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations.
[Some books have] made the erroneous assumption that the important thing in evolution is the good of the species (or the group) rather than the good of the individual (or the gene).
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